Interestingly, my wife said that she got something from my sermon on Sunday that I wasn’t trying to communicate. I said “interestingly,” but perhaps I should have used the word “ironically.” Except that I’m sure such a thing happens all the time.
While speaking on the first Sunday of Advent, I was expounding on Joseph. How he was described as a righteous man. Was unwilling to humiliate Mary publicly when he thought her pregnant by another man. The phrase that spun my better half in another direction was, “God chose wisely when He entrusted the watchcare of His Son to such a man.”
Bonnie, struck by the difficulty of Joseph’s situation, realized that he was in that situation because he was trustworthy. And in that moment she was grateful for the bangs, crashes, jolts and thuds we’ve faced, realizing that God has considered us faithful enough to be assigned the bumpy road.
For this to occur, we must trust that God knows what He is doing. Easier said than done, for most of us.
